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Clarkston Financial Corp. of Michigan has hired Donald M. Bolton as the senior vice president of commercial lending for its $190 million-asset Clarkston State Bank.
Mr. Bolton was the vice president of commercial banking at Independent Bank East Michigan, one of four banks with similar names owned by Independent Bank Corp. of Ionia.
Before that he had been a first vice president and a market manager for business banking at LaSalle Bank Midwest of Troy. Earlier he had been a vice president and a business banking manager at Huntington National Bank.
He has 22 years of banking experience.
MIDDLE ATLANTICEvans Bancorp Inc. of Angola, N.Y., said David J. Nasca would become the president of the company and its $455 million-asset Evans National Bank on Dec. 1 and the chief executive officer of both April 1.
He will succeed James Tilley, who is retiring from those jobs.
Mr. Nasca, who was added to the boards of the parent company and the bank Sept. 1, has 20 years of western New York banking experience. His last job was as the executive vice president of strategic initiatives at First Niagara Financial Group Inc. of Lockport.
Before that he had been the president and chief executive officer of First Niagara's Cayuga Bank, which has since been merged into First Niagara Bank. Earlier he had been the parent company's treasurer.
Provident Bank of Jersey City has hired Bruce Rossi as the head of its Small Business Administration lending division.
Mr. Rossi, who has also been named a vice president, joined the $5.9 billion-asset unit of Provident Financial Services Inc. after a 34-year career with Valley National Bank of Passaic, N.J. Most recently he had been a first vice president and the manager of Valley National's SBA lending program.
Northern State Bank of Closter, N.J., has hired William J. Boylan as a senior vice president and its business development officer.
Mr. Boylan will oversee commercial deposit and loan product promotion and private banking services for the $16 million-asset bank.
He was a senior vice president and the senior business development manager at NVE Bank of Englewood. Before that he had been a senior vice president at Summit Bank of Princeton.
SOUTHEASTCoast Financial Holdings Inc. of Bradenton, Fla., has made Justin D. Locke the chief financial officer at the company and its $624 million-asset Coast Bank of Florida.
Mr. Locke had held those jobs on an interim basis since July. He has also been promoted from senior to executive vice president.
As the CFO, he continues to perform the duties of the bank's controller, a title he had held from 2004 until becoming the CFO.
He joined the bank as an analyst in 2002. Before that he had worked as a staff accountant at Republic Bank in St. Petersburg, Fla., for four years.
WESTAmericanWest Bancorp. of Spokane has hired Patrick J. Rusnak as an executive vice president and the chief operating officer of the company and its $1.4 billion-asset AmericanWest Bank.
Mr. Rusnak had the same job and title at Western Sierra Bancorp, a $1.2 billion-asset Cameron Park, Calif., bank holding company that Umpqua Holdings Corp. of Portland Ore., bought in June.
Before joining Western Sierra he had been an executive vice president and the chief financial officer at Humboldt Bancorp, a $1.5 billion-asset bank holding company that Umpqua bought in 2004. While at Humboldt, Mr. Rusnak worked under then-chief executive officer Robert Daugherty, now the president and CEO of AmericanWest Bank and its parent.
Tamalpais Bank, a San Rafael, Calif., unit of Epic Bancorp, has made Michael Rice its chief lending officer.
Mr. Rice had been the senior vice president of small-business lending since joining the $502 million-asset Tamalpais in 2004.
Before that he had been a regional vice president of small business and commercial lending in Marin County for Sonoma National Bank of Santa Rosa.
